mayb its just sumtin like steam

Lan = OH HEY LETS PIRATE IT AND INSTALL IN OUR CYBERCAFES

If they have local or neighboring country servers like the one setup-up by e-club, starhub etc. there shouldn't be any lag issue.

Hopefully Blizzard is watching what Valve's steam is doing unlike the current battle.net which has bad match-making mechanics.

I don't know its a repost or not, I just read over The Star newspaper today.
Check this out.
http://www2.razerzone.com/sc2/index.php

Very enlightening statement

yup.. blizzard is using it as a way to combat piracy..

Blizzard want to do so is to prevent privacy.

Really?
Since when LAN gaming is another reason for pirating game? Blizzard is just being lazy and hoping to the current bad trend of gaming such as in game achievement.
No matter how tight you secure your software, sooner or later someone will break it. The tigher the DRM, the more money you will lose.
Remember SPORE? It was loaded with Securom and those who bought genuine copy almost plan to storm EA's office and crucify the people there until EA release the de-activiation tool . Those who bought genuine copy get f*** up while pirated user just slip away.

Can we move on from this LAN issue? It is obvious why they are removing it and it hardly effects any of us. So zioburosky13 if you are the 1%(or less) that plan to play on a LAN, you have my sympathy. If you think LAN is a big feature that effects your purchasing decision, then you have already made your mind. The argument about it has been discussed to death I suggest looking a few pages back.

And a reminder. I won't accept posts about these illegal IP tunnellers/programs.

PS : If you would like to know more about how LAN and piracy correlates, I suggest looking at a stickied post by da3shou3 at the Warcraft section about VPNs.

This post has been edited by frags: Aug 18 2009, 11:04 PM

Thumbsup frags! xD

One of the reason why Starcraft gain such popularity is because of it's addictive LAN game-play before the rise of broadband internet.

Wait until Johnny wants to play SC2 LAN with his friends. On no he can't Cause the internet is down.
The more people putting everything on the cloud (a.k.a. the internet), the more it becomes more vulnerable and complex in terms of usability and accessibility.
I'm not going to argue anything. All I know it's that Blizzard's decision of removing LAN game has pissed off even their most hardcore fans.

This post has been edited by zioburosky13: Aug 19 2009, 12:15 AM

Dude we have been through this topic a month ago.

Lan emulator servers are the cause of the removal due to their exploit so stop b****ing about it and talk about something else

And well, if they are gonna put it in, they arent gonna put it in (no kinky double sense meant... seriously...)

I do agree LAN has kinda decreased for the past few years with the increase of fast internet. While I am not 100% happy they take it out, well, not like we can decide

And last: Blizzard don't give a crap about Malaysia's internet, it's Guv and Streamyx fault Malaysia has bad internet, not games company.

Personally the more I read about the solo play, the more I can't wait!

This post has been edited by Gormaz: Aug 19 2009, 10:35 AM

There is nothing else to talk about.

There is

Oh hey guise is it out yet?
brb running

LAN will affect cyber cafe income. Most people play LAN games in cyber cafe. If they have bnet they wont be going to cyber cafe wif their friends.

Also i don thtink removing LAN will combat piracy. We still have our malaysian pirate blue server and u dont need ori warcraft 3 to dota

Well,nothing much we can do,but im pretty much against it.

Even in Australia,internet is shit.12 out of my 70+/- games in DoW2 end up as disconnect.

The thing is,LAN is pretty much rarely used these days.It's always either one problem or another.

Still,dont forget that SC1 become popular in Korea is because of all these IP tunnellers,from private leagues like ICCup.

Blizzard needs to have a IP tunneller in Battlenet 2.0's net code which will stop the b****ing and it's still a win win situation for everyone.Plus,add in an auto-update and able to redownload your entire game over the net(it's available now) to SC2 would be even awesome.

whether lan or not, i still will buy it, who cares lolx

this trailer are damm cool~ welcome back sarah~